orders the appointment of a new Council, or commission
composed of five or six upright and experienced
members. "Such," says the document, "are the points on
which are concentrated our desires. Religion, zeal for
the general good, and patriotism, require that each one
should labour with ardour in the solution of questions
so useful to public affairs. It will therefore be necessary
that the ministers and the functionaries, forgetting their
particular advantage, should concentrate all their efforts
to the general interests—interests in which each has
naturally his part. Let, therefore, the labour be
sincerely and faithfully undertaken, with all the attention
and all the zeal possible, for the organisation of the
necessary rules and regulations."

Advices from Constantinople of the 7th inst. give
further accounts of the movements of Schamyl, the
celebrated Circassian chief. Between the 26th of
August and the 1st of September he entered the
northern part of Georgia with 18,000 men, and advanced
to the Kour. The centre, which he commanded in
person, was at Achalgori on the 28th of August; the
right wing, under the Emir Hassan Emin, was at Gori,
on the Kour, at the same date; and the left wing, under
Emir Chupli Emin, was at Mycht, a little to the north
of Teflis. The Russians were taken completely by
surprise, and retreated after a very feeble resistance
into the mountains. Schamyl carried off a great
quantity of booty, and made some prisoners of high
rank. An important result of the razzia was, that the
Russians were immediately obliged to relinquish all
idea of conquest in Turkish Armenia.

The accounts from Bucharest state that the Austrians,
headed by Count Coronini, entered that city on the
morning of the 6th instant. Omar Pasha received them
at the head of a Turkish division and a detachment of
the Wallachian militia, outside the gate of Padu Mogoschoy;
where the Catholic and Greek clergy, the members
of the Administration, some of the Boyards, and a
dense crowd of citizens, were assembled. Count Coronini,
the commander of the Austrian corps of occupation, and
the Turkish Sirdar, rode at the head of the troops.
The Ottoman Commissioner in Wallachia, Dervish
Pasha, has issued a proclamation announcing the coming
of the Austrians, and explaining the object of their
presence in the Principalities.—"The Sublime Porte
having entered into a convention with his Imperial
Apostolic Majesty, as previously with the governments
of France and England, it is my duty to make known
to you, that, in accordance with that convention, the
Imperial Austrian troops will provisionally occupy both
Principalities. The presence of these troops in Wallachia
need cause no uneasiness to you, for they enter the
country as one of the friendly powers allied with the
Sublime Porte. These troops will be in no way a
burden to you, for they will pay for everything
purchased in ready money. After the Russians have
positively evacuated the Principalities, the former government
of the country will be restored. Your ancient privileges
are and will be scrupulously preserved. Their
maintenance is not owing to the treaties which are annulled,
but to the benevolent and paternal solicitude of his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan, our gracious Sovereign,
whose honour and glory are deeply interested therein.
May God bestow happiness and blessings on our Sultan!"
The evacuation of Moldavia by the Russians is complete;
at the date of the last account the Russian rear-guard
was crossing the Pruth.

The intelligence from Italy relates chiefly to the
ravages of the cholera. At Naples, not less than 10,000
persons have been carried off by this disease. No doubt
many would have been saved had the authorities shown
more activity about the removal of filth, but nothing is
cared for at Naples but political offenders. The king
has remained during the cholera period at the island of
Ischia, and has made little or no exertions to assist the
poor.—Letters from Sicily represent the cholera as
having made great ravages in Palermo and Messina.
The latter city is nearly deserted, the people having fled
to the surrounding heights. All the shops and markets
have been, or are, closed. The authorities have sent to
Naples for food and medicines. Palermo is threatened
still with a rising of the people, who have strange ideas
about the cholera—they think it is sent from Naples—
by authority. In the provinces the people believe they
are poisoned, and it has been found necessary to send
troops to Cosenza to prevent disturbances.

The cholera at Genoa has produced one very desirable
effect—having awakened the municipality, and indeed
the population generally, to the necessity of making
better arrangements for the lodging of the poorer classes
and for the purification of the town altogether. For a
general cleansing the means are at hand in the shape of
a water company which has for some time been
endeavouring to induce the citizens of Genoa to supply
themselves with water from the Apennines, and which
offers to furnish them with it in abundance to the very
tops of their houses.

In Rome and Florence the disease is stated to be on
the increase, and at Milan a few cases are notified, but
in other parts of Italy it appears to be on the decline.

The dates from Hongkong are to the 22nd of July.
The entire province of Canton is at the mercy of the
Triad societies, who have taken up arms against the
governing authorities, and have made themselves masters
of some of the chief towns on the banks of the Canton
river, thus cutting off the whole of the trade with the
interior. The town of Fat-shan, distant twenty miles
up the river beyond Canton, has been captured by the
Triad inhabitants, who sacked the shops and levied
contributions on the well-disposed part of the population.
The Mandarins sent a large force from Canton against
the insurgents, which effected nothing, and the movement
gained, and still gains, head. A party of the
British, and one also of Americans, had visited the
rebels, but both parties received insults and were lucky
in escaping with their lives. On the 20th of July, a
battle had taken place in the neighbourhood of Canton
between the Imperialist forces and the rebels, in which
two or three mandarins were killed, as also many of
the Imperialists. The latter retreated into the city of
Canton only time enough to close the gates against the
insurgents. A curious document has been published in
the Times, which gives a striking insight into the
present religious persuasions of the insurgent Chinese. It
seems that among the Princes of the Pretender's Court,
one, styled the Eastern Prince, professes, or is considered
to receive, Divine inspiration, and indeed it is
represented, either figuratively, or as literal truth, that the
Divinity descends from Heaven to announce His will,
either directly or through such medium, to the Chinese
people. The narrative accordingly purports to detail
the revelations so made, and sets forth a visit of "the
Heavenly Father" in person, together with an elaborate
communication which the Eastern Prince was
commissioned to deliver in the Divine name to the Celestial
King, i. e., the Pretender himself. The commands
thus conveyed have reference not to any doctrinal
propositions or any lofty precepts of morality, but to the
general administration of the government, the management
of the court, and even the regulation of its
ceremonial. The officers of the court, and, especially,
the female officers, are to be treated with more indulgence
and consideration; the king is to be less hasty and
impetuous, to inflict punishment in moderation and upon
reasonable grounds only, to be thoughtful in his actions,
and to give his attendants less occasion to stand in awe
of him. In particular, he is enjoined to be cautious in
visiting offences with death, and is recommended to
adopt such a method of proceeding in capital cases as
would leave room for investigation and pardon. Such
are the precepts for which the immediate authority of
the Divinity is claimed, and which are announced in all
the awful phraseology of Revelation itself. As a climax
the Celestial King is represented as ascribing to the
Eastern Prince, in consideration of these communications,
the mission and title of "the Comforter, even the
Holy Ghost," and this designation, we are told, has
been assumed accordingly.

Advices from the United States are to the 12th inst.
There have been disturbances at Philadelphia. During
the celebration of the grand Turnerbund festival by the